Category Archive: Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Maximim Mini! Ride Along As This Vintage Mini Runs 156mph With A Crazily Hot Rodded Sub One Liter Engine At Bonneville
(By Eric Rood) – We’ve missed Bonneville the last couple years with the well-publicized problems of salt and poor weather, but suffice to say that if we can manage to squeeze in Speed Week...
Is This The Greatest Crash Testing Failure Of All Time? Watch A Holden Fold Like An Accordion
While new cars are filled with all kinds of bells and whistles and hardcore guys may not necessarily want because they add weight and complexity, there is one undeniable fact about modern automotive...
Ride Along In A Racing Ferrari 458 GT3 As It Blows A Tire And Spins At 175mph And Hits…Nothing!
It’s not every day that you spin a $350,000 Ferrari at 175 mph and the only things that need replacing are a tire and your underwear. For Australian sports car racer Liam Talbot, a tire failure...
Ride Along Over The Shoulder Of A USAC Silver Crown Driver As He Hauls Sideways Around A Dirt Oval During Race Practice
The formula for a USCA Silver Crown car is pretty simple if we break it down to the total root and that is essentially this. Take a sprint car chassis, install a NASCAR engine in it and go have fun...
Incredible Wreckage: Watch The Disastrous Start To A GT Class Road Race In Germany
Wickam tipped us off to this one and it is a doozy. The footage comes from the Oschersleben race course in Germany where a road racing event was being held. The cars are all flipping awesome with a...
This 1964 Video Featuring The Early GT40 Is Spectacular – Sound And All!
The Ford GT40 is one of the most iconic race cars of the 20th century. Born out of spite when Enzo Ferrari rebuffed Ford’s attempt to buy his company, the mighty guns of Dearborn took aim at...
Morning Symphony: A Spread Of Rally Cars Playing In Anger! From The Seventies Through Today, Hear Them Run!
Tiny, angry engines, hissing turbocharger waste gates, attention-grabbing pops and bangs from the anti-lag system, flames shooting out of the exhaust…rally racing is really an underrated...
HERETIC! This Ford Falcon XY Drifter Is Rough, Ready, And Powered By…You Guessed It…
To some people, there are certain cars you just don’t screw with. Mopar E-bodies need to have a Pistol Grip and either a 340 Six-Pack or a big-block. Mustang guys cling to Ford small-block...
RideTech Goes Racing Naked In Scottsdale! You DO NOT Have To Avert Your Eyes
The soft focus, the music, the sexy curves, the orange cones. Wait..what? The RideTech crew was out in force at the Goodguys Scottsdale show recently and they had the 48 Hour Corvette along with the...
Morning Symphony: This Drifting BMW M3 Is A Concert Of Wailing Six Cylinder Power And Machine-Gun Anti-Lag!
There are only so many Nissan S-chassis cars out there for drifters to get their hands on. Sooner or later, other body styles had to be converted, and one of the more popular “other” cars...
Rally Wreckage Video: Highlights From WRC Rally Mexico Include Big Speed And Big Impacts!
(By Eric Rood) – Rally Mexico has proved an up-and-down event for Belgian rally driver Thierry Neuville in his brief World Rally Championship career. He earned his first-ever WRC podium in...
This Mini vs. Alfa Romeo Last Lap Battle From Goodwood Is Road Racing Perfection All The Way To The Checkered Flag!
Every time I see a classic car “race”, I usually expect parade laps with passing done only by hand signal. “No, no, you have the power, you go ahead.” I understand that nobody...
This sliding, airborne, on-fire Holden Ute is the most Australian thing to ever happen in racing
(By Eric Rood) – There’s really very little that needs to be said here, but here’s a brief bit of setup: The V8 Ute Series raced in Adelaide this weekend in support of the V8 Supercars’...
Wild Video: Ride In The Cockpit Of An Indy Car As It Hauls Around Road America At 200+ – Yowza!
(By Eric Rood) – IndyCar has already tested at Sonoma Raceway and Phoenix International Raceway this year and while there were plenty of stories to go on about from both places, we think the...